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NASDAQ NMS - GLOBAL MARKET · Insurance · CIK 0001126328
$110.11
+1.54% · live
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$23.94B market value
From PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL GROUP INC's FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 18, 2026 · read the filing
PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL sells insurance. It took in $15.63B last year, which makes it a large company. Of every dollar it sells, about 8 cents is left as profit.
The financial picture is mixed, with profitability needing attention and growth and debt weaker.
A conclusion from the filings, not a recommendation. Detailed figures and supporting evidence appear in their dedicated sections below.
Financial health
Several areas of financial weakness.
From PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL GROUP INC's FY2025 annual filing · share price scored separately
Largest year-over-year changes in FY2025
Profit
$1.57B → $1.19B
Earnings per share
$6.94 → $5.45
Profit margin
9.7% → 7.6%
Cash
$4.21B → $4.43B
Measured against FY2024, from the 10-K filed Feb 18, 2026
Deteriorated: -24.6%
$1.57B to $1.19BSignificant
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
How the latest move compares (quote live), and what was published around it
PFG rose 1.54% on the latest quote. The average Financials company tracked here moved +1.10%, and the S&P 500 −1.04%. That is in line with its sector and 2.6 points above the market.
Expectations
Not from the filings — what other people are betting on, and what the price already assumes.
Opinions from 22 analysts covering this company, as of . Their views, not this site's.
Of 22 analysts publishing on this company, 2 say buy, 13 say hold, 6 say sell and 1 say strong sell. Analysts are paid to publish a view and are wrong often; the split above says how much they agree with each other, which is the part a single headline rating hides.
Published by Finnhub. Analyst coverage skews towards larger companies and towards optimism — sell ratings are rare across the whole market, so a company with none is ordinary rather than endorsed.
The essentials
Each answered from the filings, with the numbers behind it.
Yes. It keeps about 8 cents of every dollar of sales as profit, earning $1.19B last year.
No. Sales shrank 3.1% last year.
For every $1 it owes, it owns $1.04 in assets. Banks and insurers always carry high debt — that is how lending works — so this is normal for the industry and not comparable with other sectors.
Core operating and valuation reference metrics
Whether the dividend is covered by what the business actually earns
It pays out 58 cents of every dollar of profit and keeps the rest, which leaves the payment comfortably covered. It paid out 15% of the cash its operations generated. It has paid in each of the last 12 years.
GoodNext payment expected around , projected from how regularly it has paid before rather than from a date the company has announced.
Figures from the FY2025 annual filing
Last year it earned $1.19B and generated $4.54B of cash from operations.
As reported to the SEC, in USD. Hover or show sources to see where each figure came from.
| Income statement | FY202510-K · Feb 18, 2026Filing for FY2025 | FY202410-K · Feb 19, 2025Filing for FY2024 | FY202310-K · Feb 20, 2024Filing for FY2023 | FY202210-K · Feb 20, 2024Filing for FY2022 | FY202110-K · Feb 20, 2024Filing for FY2021 | ChangeFY2025 vs FY2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RevenueWhat is this? | $15.63B | $16.13B | $13.67B | $17.54B | $14.43B | −3.1% |
| Net income | $1.19B | $1.57B | $623.2M | $4.76B | $1.58B | −24.6% |
| Net marginNet income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 7.6% | 9.7% | 4.6% | 27.1% | 11.0% | −2.2 pts |
| Earnings per shareNet income ÷ shares outstanding at the period end — close to, but not the same as, the reported EPSWhat is this? | $5.45 | $6.94 | $2.64 | $19.53 | $6.04 | −21.5% |
† calculated from other reported figures, such as total liabilities as assets minus equity.
This company's latest filing beside its peers' stored scores
| Company | Health | F-Score | Revenue growth | Profit margin | P/E | Debt to equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PFGPRINCIPAL FINANCIAL GROUP INC · this page | 3.3/10 | 5/7 |
Insider activity, ownership stakes and what's coming — straight from EDGAR, before any article is written about it
Officers, directors and major shareholders must report within two business days of a trade.
Was granted or awarded shares — 648 shares
Holds 91,979 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 78 shares
Holds 13,278 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 138 shares
Holds 21,550 shares after this filing.
20 recent filings, newest first. Each is labelled from its form and item numbers, not from its wording.
Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingSigned a material agreement · Took on a direct financial obligation
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Every figure above traces back to a filing in the timeline, each linked to the document itself.
The 131 subsidiaries named in its 10-K. A filer lists the significant ones and may leave the rest out, so this is the floor rather than the full count.
Every company's figures are checked for internal consistency: the balance sheet adding up, figures sharing one currency, cash flow and share counts within plausible ranges, and how recent the latest annual report is. Nothing here changes a figure.
Financial figures are from PFG's 10-K for fiscal year 2025 (period ending 2025-12-31, filed Feb 18, 2026), reported under the US GAAP taxonomy. View the source filing.
3 of 4 scored areas had enough reported figures to judge
The score averages profitability, growth, debt and accounting. Accounting had too few reported figures and is left out of the average rather than counted as a weakness, so a company is never marked down for a figure it did not publish. Cash generation is shown for context and already feeds profitability. Valuation is scored separately, because a share price says nothing about whether the business is sound. 7 of the 9 Piotroski checks could be evaluated. How the score works
Each year scored only from its annual report as it was first filed
| Fiscal year | Health | F-Score | Scored from |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 3.3 | 5/7 | 10-K, filed Feb 18, 2026 |
| FY2024 | 6.0 | 7/7 | 10-K, filed Feb 19, 2025 |
| FY2023 | 3.3 | 5/7 | 10-K, filed Feb 20, 2024 |
| FY2022 | 7.3 | 6/7 | 10-K, filed Feb 20, 2024 |
| FY2021 | 6.0 | 6/7 | 10-K, filed Feb 11, 2022 |
| FY2020 | 4.7 | 5/7 | 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2021 |
A later restatement never reaches back into an earlier year, and every year is scored without a share price, so the latest point can differ a little from the headline score, which uses today's price.
Every check behind the three models, and what each one tests
5 of 7 checks passed
Nine yes-or-no tests of whether this year's finances improved on last year's. 2 could not be evaluated and are excluded from the total rather than counted as failures.
not reported — Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
Distance from bankruptcy, from a model fitted on companies that did and did not go bust. It describes a balance sheet's shape today; it does not forecast a failure.
not reported — Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
Screens eight accounting ratios for the pattern earnings manipulators tend to leave. A flag is a reason to read the filing closely, never evidence of wrongdoing.
Every figure above comes from the FY2025 filing as filed with the SEC.
Deteriorated: -21.5%
$6.94 to $5.45Significant
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Deteriorated: −2.2 pts
9.7% to 7.6%Notable
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Improved: +5.2%
$4.21B to $4.43BNotable
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Improved: -3.9%
226.2M to 217.4MNotable
Why it matters: The company bought back stock, so each remaining holding owns slightly more of it. Worth checking it was not funded by borrowing.
Q1 FY2026 against Q1 FY2025, from the 10-Q filed Apr 29, 2026 — read it.
Improved: +782.7%
$48.1M to $424.6MCritical
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Improved: +10.7 pts
1.3% to 12.0%Critical
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Improved: +817.5%
$0.21 to $1.96Critical
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Improved: -9.1%
$4.32B to $3.93BNotable
Why it matters: Rising debt is not automatically bad — borrowing to build something that earns more than the interest is ordinary. It matters when it grows faster than the profit meant to service it.
Improved: -3.8%
225.0M to 216.4MNotable
Why it matters: The company bought back stock, so each remaining holding owns slightly more of it. Worth checking it was not funded by borrowing.
3 other measures barely moved. Figures compare the two most recent annual filings — read the latest one. Moves are graded on fixed lines — 5%, 15% and 40% for amounts, and 1, 3 and 8 points for margins — as notable, significant or critical. Nothing here reads the management commentary, which is where a company explains its own numbers.
These coincide with the move in time. None is presented as its cause: a price can move on news that names no company, on the wider market, or on trading that no document records.
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Measured on and published about a week later — this is a fortnightly snapshot, not a live position.
About 3.8% of this company's shares have been borrowed and sold by people expecting to buy them back cheaper. That is a bet the price falls. Those people can be wrong, and when a heavily shorted share rises they have to buy it back, which pushes it up further.
Collected by FINRA from broker-dealers twice a month. It counts positions, not intentions, and some of it is hedging rather than a directional bet against the company.
Nothing in this section is a figure this company reported about itself. These are expectations and positions — what the price implies, what analysts have published, what short sellers are betting, and what large funds held at the last count. WylthIQ reports them; it does not endorse them, does not forecast prices, and takes no view on whether any of them will turn out to be right.
The trailing P/E is 21.9x — investors pay $21.9 for each $1 of trailing profit.
Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
Reported annual figures
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| PRUPRUDENTIAL FINANCIAL INC | 3.3/10 | 6/7 | -13.7% | 5.9% | 11.70x | 22.76x |
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| GLGLOBE LIFE INC. | 7.3/10 | 6/7 | 3.7% | 19.4% | 13.37x | 4.16x |
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| LNCLINCOLN NATIONAL CORP | 3.3/10 | 2/7 | -1.2% | 6.5% | 6.64x | 37.25x |
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| Median of peers | 6.0/10 | — | -1.2% | 19.4% | 13.37x | 22.76x |
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Peers come from the company's industry classification. A difference describes the companies; it does not rank them.
Was granted or awarded shares — 273 shares
Holds 40,100 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 211 shares
Holds 31,548 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 97 shares
Holds 13,699 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 105 shares
Holds 17,066 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 161 shares
Holds 23,112 shares after this filing.
Notice filed ahead of a planned sale — the sale itself has not necessarily happened yet.
Filed notice to sell 55,140 shares ($6.1M) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Exercise of Stock Options.
Filed notice to sell 35,680 shares ($4.1M) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Exercise of Stock Options.
Estimated from how often this has happened before, not a confirmed date.
Not investment advice, and not a signal to act on by itself — a filing says what happened, not why, and insiders trade for ordinary reasons having nothing to do with where they think the company is headed.
Quarterly report on Form 10-Q
Published results
Read the filingMade a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingSigned a material agreement · Took on a direct financial obligation · Reported another event
Read the filingHeld a shareholder vote
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q1 FY2026
Profit margin +10.7 pts · Profit +782.7% · Earnings per share +817.5% — against Q1 FY2025
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingMade a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingProxy statement for a shareholder meeting
Read the filingAnnual report for FY2025
Profit margin −2.2 pts · Profit -24.6% · Earnings per share -21.5% — against FY2024
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingMade a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q3 FY2025
Revenue +22.2% · Profit margin +13.1 pts · Profit turned positive — against Q3 FY2024
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingMade a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q2 FY2025
Revenue -14.8% · Profit margin +2.9 pts · Profit +15.0% — against Q2 FY2024
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingThe first 40 of 131. The rest are in the exhibit.
Source: Exhibit 21 of the 10-K filed 2026-02-18. These are legal entities, not brands or acquisitions — a company that bought a business may hold it inside an entity named here, or inside one small enough that the rule does not require naming it at all.
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